Ron Johnson: Media pushing coronavirus ‘panic porn’

By Mike Brest

Published August 4, 2020 8:12am ET

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Ron Johnson: Media pushing coronavirus ‘panic porn’ — In this Tuesday, July 30, 2019, file photo, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee Chair Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks during a committee hearing on conditions at the Southern border, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Sen. Ron Johnson accused the media of sensationalizing the coronavirus and stoking fear into the public.

The Wisconsin Republican, who appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room: Pandemic podcast on Monday, also touted hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug that has been promoted by President Trump and his allies as a treatment for COVID-19 patients despite a lack of scientific evidence to prove that the medication can treat the coronavirus.

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